Bleachers Take The Sadness Out Of Saturday Night RCA Everyone has that friend, maybe even been that friend – the one who gets hooked on a song and needs you to know it. Sometimes the infatuation will pass after a few days, sometimes weeks, [...]
CHILDISH GAMBINO REIMAGINES BRITTANY HOWARD’S GRAMMY®-WINNING HIT “STAY HIGH” ATO RECORDS ATO Records has released five-time GRAMMY Award winner Childish Gambino’s resonant cover of Brittany Howard’s “Stay High.” His soulful vocals, [...]
Vivien Cooper & Bro Paul Brown The Instrumental Alphabet Moonwhistle Music Author, lyricist, poet, writer and voice actress Vivien Cooper has teamed up with musician/producer Paul Brown of The Waterboys to create a very unique and original [...]
Electric Six Streets Of Gold Cleopatra Records What have we here? An entire album of covers by Electric Six? Yes, and what a treat this is. Streets of Gold is Electric Six’s 15th studio album, and their first since 2018’s brilliant Bride Of The [...]
Piroshka Love Drips And Gathers Bella Union Bob Mould now-famously excused himself in 1993 from producing London shoegaze/dream pop band Lush’s album Split because he “kept picking the wrong girl’s songs.” The novel template of Shangri-Las/ABBA [...]
Bad Buzz For A Good Time, Call… Independent Sporting a new lineup, Toronto punk rockers Bad Buzz have returned since their 2019 studio EP, Try Harder. Following a trio of singles released in the first half of this year – “Carousel”, “A [...]
David Crosby For Free BMG Sometime this August, David Crosby will turn 80. He has practically been around throughout the entire history of rock music in all its forms. That, along with working solo, working with such iconic bands as The Byrds, [...]
Dallas Burrow Dallas Burrow Independent For some, the cowboy hat Dallas Burrow is wearing on his second, self-titled album might be the only reason to skip on it. For others, it might be exactly the reason to pick it up. In both cases, they [...]
Prince Welcome 2 America Sony The posthumous additions to the expansive discography of Prince have included a pair of massive deluxe reissues and numerous vinyl debuts, while the two unreleased collections of music – 2018’s Piano & A [...]
Debra-Jean Creelman Threshold Modern Laundry Recording Club Debra-Jean Creelman has done something very special with Threshold, her new full-length release. It is full of unique sounds and music that truly stands out among the new releases this [...]
The Fall Are You Are Missing Winner (Deluxe Reissue) Cherry Red Apologists attribute prerelease sales of Are You Are Missing Winner at gigs in 2001 for the fun fact that The Fall’s 22nd studio album was the only one after 1983 not to chart. [...]
Blutengel Erlösung: The Victory of Light Out Of Line Music German Gothic duo Blutengel, comprised of vocalists Chris Pohl and Ulrike Goldmann, have had quite a busy year thus far. Not only did they release a collection of ‘80s covers this year [...]
Dee Gees (Foo Fighters) Hail Satin Sony Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters have truly reached a point where they can do no wrong – so much so, that such a sentiment feels redundant. Their latest Record Store Day release, Hail Satin sees the rock [...]
Barenaked Ladies Detour De Force Raisin’ Records Barenaked Ladies have been a consistent force since their beginnings in 1988, with the initial duet of friends Ed Robertson and Steven Page. With the current lineup of Robertson, Jim [...]
Acid Dad Take It From The Dead Greenway Records/The Reverberation Appreciation Society Following their 2018 self-titled debut, Acid Dad has returned with newly released LP Take It From the Dead, co-released by Greenway Records and The [...]
Chet Faker Hotel Surrender BMG “Music does something.” So begins Chet Faker’s opening monologue on his sophomore release Hotel Surrender. To call it his sophomore release is a bit if a misnomer – while this is technically the second Chet Faker [...]
John R. Miller Depreciated Rounder Records Yet another Americana/alt country album you would say? Maybe. That is a remark that you can encounter from anyone that isn’t too keen on the genre and takes only a cursory listen to Depreciated, [...]
A Place To Bury Strangers Hologram Dedstrange If you haven’t heard A Place to Bury Strangers (APTBS) since their arrival, making records about exploding heads and shows loud enough to do the same, not too much has changed. For fans of the [...]
Sylvia Sweet Stuff Wewantsounds The legacy of Sylvia Robinson is that as a hip-hop pioneer, she was the woman who pushed The Sugar Hill Gang into the studio to record “Rapper’s Delight”, the first ever recorded hip-hop track and mega hit – and [...]
Bryan Away Canyons To Sawdust Independent There are so many sounds around that have been dubbed as Baroque pop, that quite a few of those actually have no connection with either Baroque or pop. The phrase that was coined back in the second part [...]
The Wallflowers Exit Wounds New West Records Distance, patience, loss, and winning, and somewhere in between is Jakob Dylan, making choices. Over the decades, it seems he has been playing it safe enough not to fail. Whatever he does, however, [...]
Murray McLauchlan Hourglass True North Records/Linus Entertainment Murray McLauchlan’s debut album, Song From The Street was released 50 years ago. In all the years since that debut, McLauchlan has done pretty much what he wanted to do, and he [...]
Albino Bats Roots Pop Suicide Records Written, recorded, and performed entirely by himself, Roots is the creative work of Barrie, ON.’s Shane Heath. Furthermore, it is the debut album under the name of Heath’s latest project, Albino Bats. Roots [...]
Raymans Welcome To Gerrard Square Independent I guess it would have been a legal hassle to use anything connected with Rayman, the Ubisoft video game character, for your fledgling band. Just a few guys hanging on the street on a sunny day will [...]
